When visiting rooms, it spends a very great amount of time displaying a spinner instead of postings. The UX is pretty good, but certain oddities stand out.ġ. (I since learned Debian operates two distinct homeservers, on, but cannot tell which is for what.)
I made accounts for myself and family members on the German host privacytools.io. I have been experimenting with Element for some time.
Would be happy to read anyone who could correct or complete me. In theory, i understand it would be possible for a matrix server to delete any metadata/messages once messages are delivered, but some features would not work, and you would also have to trust the server to actually delete the metadata. The content of conversations are e2e encrypted.
You only need a nickname to use it (at least for now). The homeserver stores all metadata and they are readable (metadata are not private/not encrypted) by Matrix for some features to work. A 1 to 1 conversation is a room with 2 people. Signal claims they cannot read the content nor the history of users actions (but you have to trust them on that, they claim to use SGX enclave stuff, but can anyone technically verify that they do what they say they are doing?)Įlement works with rooms, there is no contact list. You need a phone number to use it, and they claim to encrypt almost all metadata, such as message senders. Signal works with a contact list, for private 1 to 1 and private groups. Took about two evenings to configure synapse + 3 bridges (whatsapp, messenger, hangouts).įor anyone wondering how it compares to Signal privacy wise: Overall, Synapse is easy to install and run. However, although Matrix allows entering phone and e-mail identifiers, I haven't seen an easy way to "find" them. Which is not true in any other messaging apps I have tried: Signal and WhatsApp use my address book and their phone numbers, Messenger is tied to my "friends". To go "native", I see one lacking point with discoverability: I don't know of a way to discover my "contacts" whether they use Matrix without asking them first. There are 7-ish of us now, 2 with their home servers (myself and the "other colleague"), and 5 with accounts on. So far the "network effects" have been coincidental: one small group of colleagues registered on after one more colleague from our small circle turned out to have a home server.
I have been running the Matrix bridges for each and am donating monthly to the creator. I have replaced Hangouts, WhatsApp and Messenger front-ends on my phone and laptop with Element.
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